Wedding show @ Sheraton Tower.

Signed up for the Wedding Fair @ Sheraton Towers few weeks back. Was not expecting much from this event as it was FOC. Our main aim was to check out the layout ballrooms and the themes available.

This wedding fair offered nothing much compared to the previous few that we went to. Two ballrooms with different thems on display, one customise wedding bands retailer, one photography services, La Belle Bridal shop, and last nails services.

There are two ballrooms in Sheraton. The smaller one has a maximum capacity of 144 people while the main ballroom has a maximum capacity of 540 people. The number of people per table is 12, unlike the usual 10. The hotel has also provided quite a nice spread of food for the event, much to our surprise.

Met Ken, my ex colleague and Jason, my sec sch friend at the event. Took a few photos using my iphone. Forgot to charge my cam batt, hence no nice photos. After the wedding, head to Sengkang for a dinner with Annie's families, her Grandma's birthday.

A Lazy Monday ......

Time seemed to pass very slowly today. Probably due to HK holiday, not much things on hand and was able to finish work early. In another word, EFFICIENT !!! I was surprised that the sky was still pretty bright when i reach home. Decided to snap the transition from daylight to nightfall.

After a few shots, hurried down to Storm for my haircut. Hair is thick and messy already.

A Sunset view from 20th Storey

Wedding Fair @ One Rochester

Signed up for the wedding fair few weeks back and it's finally here. This wedding fair focused on the solemnization ceremony instead of the tradition chinese wedding dinner. As this event is organised by One Rochester Group, was expecting lots of nice outdoor deco, not to mention the food too.

It was drizzling when we make our way down and was wondering would this actually affect the outdoor deco. Reached Bouna Vista @ ard 2.30pm. Lost our way as we have made a turn earlier. There was another couple in front of us and they got the paisei look, probably thinking that they were leading the wrong way.

Called Ros to confirm the place and found it. Registered and exploredthe area, guided by a PR Manger, Sammy. Sammy showed us the around, sharing with us the perks and the price of the the package.

The first room that Sammy brought us to was the theme by One Caramel. Nice Stairway up the room. Lots of nice pastries and tiered cakes. My gal was mesmerised by all the nice pastries and cakes.

Nice unique tiered cakes !!
Can you bear to eat it ??

the wobbly cake, it's falling !!!!!

Nice theme, it does really look elegant

Walking down to the next room .....
the 1 Altitude .....

Cost of holding solemization here, $300++ per pax
OMG !!! =s

one of the favors .....

the buffet section ......
still in the process of setting up .....

the pastries section !!!!
it's so colorful, brighten up one's day !!

the pastries princess with her yummy cakes (^0^)

Finally the buffet section is open. There were lots of ugly singaporean. As the buffet counter was on a round table in the middle of the room, was expecting the people to grab their food and move on. Instead, the people juz hogged the whole area and eat on the spot. They are not moving aside for others to take their share. Morever, most of them would juz stood by their fav dish, keep eating and refilling at the same time. Faintz......

Not wanting to squeeze with the rest, grabbed some food and find seats outside to enjoy the food and wine.

the solemnization area .....

beach wedding theme @ 1 Twenty-Six ......
didn't expect one would have to rent the beach area from LTA for ard $2-3k ..... =s

This is a real couple going through the whole solemnization process for the guests to have a feel of the program flow. The flower gal and ring bearer are acutally their kids !! The ring bearer, Daniel is very cute !!!! Beautiful Mum too =)

Daniel is really so cute, but hard to take photos of him. Stage was quite far from me. Would i be able to find cute flower gal and page boy too ??

byebye Daniel !!

Left the place close to 10pm. There was some miscommunication between the package offers that was told earlier by Sammy. Lucky that we actually get a wedding planner to go through all the items and checklist again. Was definitely much more assured than Sammy, where he seems to be in a hurry to close the deal tat's all. Appreciate that May actually took some time off to explain and show us her portfolio. Hope everything turns out well.

Unpleasant experience with Double Bliss Bridal Shop

We won a free wedding photo shoot package worth $2,888 and a One Nite Wkend stay @ Meritus Mandrain Hotel @ Wedding Show back in Dec 09 in a lucky draw. Initially we were very happy, as this is the first time we have ever win a prize in a lucky draw.

As we already had a wedding package, we tried to sell this package away, going as low as $1,488. When we went down to the shop to find out more details about the package, we found out that it was all a marketing gimmick !!

This is not even good enough to be considered a full pre-wedding shoot package. Considering that it is a $2,888, which is only a few hundred off the usual $3,388 package that most bridal shops are offering, this package totally sucks!! This is juz like a NORMAL photoshoot tat's all, with free rental of 2 wedding gowns and there's only 12 poses !

The boss tried to explain to us and keep persuading us to top up to make the package a complete one, thinking that we are some fools. To me, this thingy is worth at most $1 k ! When we tell him wat we can really get for a $2,888 package else where, the boss was at a loss for words. What does this say ??

Not willing to fork out anything and pissed with the attitude of the boss, we told him that we'll juz take the free package that's offered to us. Arranged the photo shoot a week before CNY........

After the photoshoot, arranged another day to select the 12 photos that we like. Again, the boss try to persuade us to fork out like $100 for each page of album with design, and for the whole album to have design inside of juz a full page photo, it cost like some $1,500 !!!

Crazy !!!! $1,500 on top of a package that is worth $2,888 gives u $4K plus package. And a $4K plus package for juz a 12 poses album with some art page design?? And we ask him if anyone would actually pay $4K plus for this kind of end product, he again got nothing to say.

Collected the album today and below are the 12 photos that we chose in the end...........

Seems like the photographer likes to cut off my head
(>.<)

The photo that i like best among the 12 photos

We have to think some of the poses ourselves instead of the photographers directing us. Not a very good experience either. Thank god this is not the actual pre-wedding shoot, else both of us would definitely regret it !